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Crazy time waster - flickrvision

Someone's mucked about with the Google Maps and Flickr APIs to create a site which grabs the last 20 or so photos uploaded to Flickr and then bounces about the world map displaying them for you.

flickrvision.com

Labels: misc time-wasting

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Ghislain Poirier

Been listening to this Quebecois producer a bit recently. He's quite a weird one, insofar as he started out making largely beatless ambient stuff (his first album was on the ever-so-quiet 12k label and was perfectly at home there) and has progressively moved on to more and more rowdy club tunes, working with dancehall and hip-hop vocalists. Production-nerd wise, his sound is still very carefully crafted, but the focus now is on making things as big, crunchy and noisy as possible. I think it would be impossible to listen to something from his first album and something from his brand new one and identify that these are from the same person.

This little promo thing for the new album has him mention the fact he made ambient music, and doesn't now, but he obviously doesn't stop to talk about why.



Quite impressed to see Ninja Tunes putting funding behind something so raw-sounding.

I guess I find the move interesting, cos I often feel an urge to express my love for dumb party music in my own writing, but always end up pulling back towards the careful (mannered) end of things. I guess I could be writing something in every style I like, but it seems a bit unmanageable... Looking at that vid, it seems pretty human to focus on the music you like making which gets you large rooms full of cheering people, too... although I seem to be tending in the opposite direction. ;)


There's a free mix of African hip-hop Poirier did on Pitchfork . Mysterious. Pretty boring, actually. :| Ah well.

Labels: music

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